Interspersed with fetching and carrying for Joe (still feeling rather rugged, but at least adjusting somewhat to his circumstances) I managed to have a lovely visit with one of my favourite knitters. Much beloved That Laurie made her way to Toronto for a funeral, and while the cirucumstances of her flight northward were unfortuanate, the time together was anything but. I made it my personal mission to make sure she got a good dose of fibre while she was here. I took her to Romni and Lettuce Knit (and the Big Fat Burrito, that Toronto knit night institution) and we drank coffee and had a grand catching up.
She let me try on a single quviut handwarmer that was the most beautiful thing ever. She had a pair but wisely only let me put on one, suspecting, in her brilliance, that if she let me put on both I would have pilfered them in a heartbeat. (I’d have a picture, but I couldn’t work my camera and keep rubbing my hands together.) We had a wonderful, wonderful day, and as always, one of the best parts of being with That Laurie was what she was wearing.
This time it was the Celtic Lattice Vest (from Cherl Oberle’s Folk Vests) which is a total stunner worked in the two colours the pattern calls for..but That Laurie, being the dye and spin brainiac she is was totally over the top. That Laurie dyed the roving in her own fantastical rainbow way (remember – she did some guest posts her on how she does it? Links here, here, here and here.) and then spun it to preserve the changes and worked it in the vest against her own dark brown handspun.
(There’s a ravelry link to her page about this project here.) It’s gorgeous. Simply gobsmackingly gorgeous.
Then the wonder dyer/spinner/knitter left me and I returned home to keep working on the Flow tank (Norah Gaughan Berroco book 2) only to reach the armholes and discover that I have made a mistake. A huge mistake. Here the whole thing was, bustling along at a great pace and I got to the armhole shaping and did as Norah said. It is worth noting here, that I did do what Norah said, and that Norah did not make any mistakes. That said…. it didn’t work.
The instructions called for a proscribed prescribed (that’s a very funny typo) series of decreases, which I worked, and then said to work straight after that until I had 3 inches. When I finished those decreases though, I already had 4 inches, which makes it very hard to work straight to 3, if you know what I mean.
Very maturely, I decided to curse a blue streak and keep knitting, in the fond hopes that the entire problem would go away, which…big surprise, it didn’t. Rat Bastard. I have a feeling that there are two words at fault here (Honk if you HATE ROW GAUGE) and that the whole thing is going to need to be reworked, ripped back or snipped into bits and eaten.
When I wake up tomorrow, I want to be That Laurie.
(PS. Romni has lots of copies of Patons Street Smart on the floor in a box at the bottom left of the book wall.)
Honk.
Honk. Doubly so on anything that’s required to be a specific size.
That Laurie’s vest is indeed exquisite. I do hope that I can manage colourwork soon.
Sorry to hear about your row gauge problem. I hate it when that happens. Hope you find a solution that doesn’t involve too much ripping back.
Honk. Gauge remains an ineffable mystery to me.
Oh, it IS a Rat Bastard. When you eat it, maybe add ketchup? My kids will eat anything if it’s dipped into ketchup.
Hmmm…knitting mistakes that don’t work themselves out without a change of course…and my hips don’t get any smaller if I continue to eat chocolate…….Sigh. If only.
That Laurie’s vest is stunning. I bet it would work as well in a solid color plus Kauni (if I could find it).
Hope Joe’s appt today goes well – for both of you. How are the girls – you haven’t said anything about them lately.
Row gauge? Row gauge? Aaack. Back to knitting 101 for me. Seriously, honk.
Thank you for your hours of pleasure-giving in St. Paul a month ago – in spite of the ice conditions over everything you were surely worth our 200-mile trip!
Honk!
But, oh, That Laurie’s dying/spinning/knitting is absolutely incredible. I’m awestruck every time you show us something of hers.
HONK!! We’ve all been there and I hope you’ve had some sleep and a fair bit of chocolate since you wrote this. Hopefully you can figure out the problem and all will not be lost!
I hope I’m commentor #10!! I hate ROW GAUGE–screw it every time!
Corrals a flock of geese to help with the honks.
HONK.
And that vest is simply gorgeous. It is made more so knowing she hand dyed and spun the yarn. Wow.
HONK!! (many times). What a gorgeous vest That Laurie has wrought. And what a joy it is to share time with a friend, especially when things are not going exactly smoothly. Believe me, I know whereof I speak!
Freaking HONK!
I’m sorry! But I’m glad you got to spend time with That Laurie. And what an incredible vest.
HONK!!!! That’s why I’ve given a bye to all things where row gauge matters. My brain is just not in a place where I can deal with that right now. Perhaps someday I too will wake up to be like That Laurie and my spinning/dyeing/knitting will come close to the gorgeous things she does. (Of course it would help perhaps if I already had dipped into those other 2 things, you know, just to get a start on being TL. I’m still working on warping the space-time continuum so that I can fit all these things into my life.)
In the meantime, I will lump along with making other things and try very hard to work myself up to being a “K”nitter – I’ve got the chocolate, beer and cursing part down pat though!
Row gauge? What’s row gauge? I guess I need a double honk for that…
wow. what a breathtaking beautiful vest. That woman is a goddess of talent 🙂 So are you– may Joe heal well and quickly enough to retain what vestages of sanity are left ( now, granted mine left a long time ago so I am so not sure if anyones is still around.
HONK, HONK, HONK! I haven’t made any sweater type garments for myself in many years but I remember doing sleeves & finding that, when I had finished doing all the increases, the sleeve was already longer than the point at which binding off for the armscye was supposed to start. Grrrrrrrrrr! I have always had a problem with row gauge & so many patterns only give stitch gauge! That Laurie’s vest may be the most beautiful knitted garment I’ve ever seen. Just looking at the pictures makes me feel happy.
I’m so glad you got to see that Laurie. I love seeing her big projects, as when I see her daughter, I only see the socks (works of art, themselves). I think I want that Laurie to adopt me, so I could live in her house of yarn and fiber.
I’m sorry the vest didn’t work. . .. that seems to be my problem pretty frequently. If only people didn’t have arms!
Since I’m not a Real Knitter I can’t honk at the row gauge. It is fear of things like row gauge that keep me from being a Real Knitter. It is things like any of That Laurie’s posts or garments that keep me wanting to be a Real Knitter though.
I’m sorry about the Row Gauge Disaster, and I am sending belated sympathy to Joe too. May he heal up quickly.
Re the copies of Patons Street Smart – likely they did have copies but given the incomparable Power of the Blog that is Harlot how long until they are reduced to just a memory and an empty box? 😉
I’m headed to the yarn store up near the cottage this weekend to look for a copy for myself!
Honk. Sigh. I always seem to end up with either the row or the stitch gauge being okay, but rarely both. I always figure the stitch one is more important, because it is much easier to change the length of something, rather than the width.
HONK!
Honk!!I usually don’t get row guage,either.Heck,I barely get stitch guage some days!Good to know about your trouble with the Flow pattern,as I plan on ordering the yarn for it this weekend-note to self-keep row guage in mind!Thanks for the heads up on that one!Quick recovery to Joe and good luck to you on your current endevors-the declutter,Flow,etc.
OK.Bad choice of words.It’s not good to hear about your knitting trouble 🙁 (But thanks for the heads up anyway!)
Oh, honk. I hate that too. I had a similar problem with sleeve caps for a sweater I knit my husband, and it just wouldn’t work, no matter what I did to it. (I still haven’t solved it, so I’m not sure why that was in the past tense.) I’m glad I’m not the only one.
Row gauge is a plague upon me. I can always get stitch gauge but never both, so I’ve given up on row gauge and just measure often. For Anais (another Norah pattern), I had to do fewer decrease/increase rounds because I was going to smack head-on into the same situation as you. Thankfully I caught it in time as I was looking at the sweater and thinking, “Wow, this is getting really long already!”
HONK! I hate row gauge. I almost never get stitch and row gauge to come out like they should. Kind of like life itself. 😉
EZ told me personally (ok, it was in a book) that row gauge is a ridiculous thing; and up until this very moment, i chose to believe her. phew. close call.
that laurie is spectacular.
HONK!
It makes resizing things such a pain. I wonder how that yarn would taste though…maybe with pesto or something ; )
honk honk!
Also, i just listened to the stash and burn episode that you are on. Can I just say…I have NEVER in my life HEARD anyone but my Mother and Grandmother say “arse over tea kettle” before in my life. I thought it was a Boston/New England thing. Thank you for making my otherwise dreary day!
honk 🙂
HONK! It’s like a herd of Canadian geese flying over. :-b I pretty much always get stitch gauge, but row gauge can suck. I’ve been in the exact same place–I usually do fewer rows between decreases.
30% chance of showers in Philly Sunday. Hope they’ve given you a covered podium! But it will be 71 (22) degrees and you will have a lovely view of the Art Museum.
What is this “row gauge” of which you speak? If I can’t knit X number of inches, I just don’t do it! Yes, I’m a lazy coward. And yes, Honk!
Beautiful vest! (Bet she can do this “row gauge” thing in her sleep.)
Honk! Honkhonkhonkhonkhonk for gauge in general!
What with you, That Laurie and all the other brilliant spinners/dyers/knitters that grace this site, it’s a wonder I have the courage to try anything new in the knit world at all!
Row gauge. Feh. HONK.
Rat Bastard. My new favourite curse. I plan o nbreaking it in this weekend – I know opportunities will arise…
“When I wake up tomorrow, I want to be That Laurie.” made me smile with this…when I screwed up my first sock last night, I said almost the exact same thing to hubby but that I wanted to be you 🙂
HONK! HONK! HONK!
I just helped my sister get through a similar experience with armhole shaping. Thankfully, her project is pretty loosely fit, so we were able to work it out without too much cursing.
Laurie’s vest is absolutely gorgeous!
I hope all goes well with Joe – hang in there, dude!
Honk! That is fine and dandy four-letter word that shouldn’t bother anyone when I growl it at my knitting… And, Rat Bastard really rips off the teeth. I like it. Yes row gauge floors me, so far I haven’t knit anything so complicated I couldn’t do a bit of extra rows or less rows to compensate. However, I have learned here, at this blog, that ripping or frogging is part of going forward. Honk!
HONK HONK HONK HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNKKKKKKKKKK!!!
“When I wake up tomorrow, I want to be That Laurie.”
Don’t we all?
As the current custodian of a so-far-twice-frogged Origami-cardi, I recommend changing something crucial before starting (the deep border’s stitch pattern, for example) and then deciding to lengthen it as well. All questions of duplicating the model are then pre-screwed and you can devote your time to trying to figure out how to make it match the schematic anyway. If I get there first I’ll dig a hole — if you get there first, fill it in.
Honk! 😉
Honking like a mad woman.
Honk, honk, honk.
BEEEEEEEEP!
yeah.
Sorry to hear about the pattern problem – how frustrating when you were making sure to follow the directions!!
I’ve only been making small things lately – hats, handwarmers, etc, so I haven’t had any row gauge issues myself (though I did notice that I’d foreshortened my state a bit in the dishcloth I made for you…so maybe I do have a few RG issues)
And let that be a lead-in to say THANK YOU for your recent visit to California (the sock-shaped state!) It was such a thrill to meet you, hear you speak, and get to hang out a bit afterward!!!
Here is a funny PS about the Maker Faire. There was a short bit in the San Francisco Chronicle this week about a comment overheard there, in Leah Garchik’s local tidbits column: At the Maker Faire at the San Mateo Fairgrounds, a father was heard pleading to his son: “You could be the first guy on your softball team who knows how to knit.”
That Laurie’s vest is exquisite. Such talent – colors, style, fit. Yum.
Here’s another row gauge irritation – yarn that doesn’t give it, making substitution challenging. Nonetheless, I’m casting on tonight – Waterlily Top from IK Spring ’06… wine may be called for.
Honk, Honk and double Honk…. though haven’t gotten as far along as you. I just did a swatch. Spot on for stitches per inch, just a bit too much on the rows per inch, which if I can’t figure out how to adjust will give me a knee length cardigan, rather a thigh top cardigan (supposed to be oversized, but not gargantuan.
That Laurie is an inspiration or great source of severe jealousy!
HONKHONKHONKHONKHONK!
I have a hard enough time with regular gauge, let alone row gauge. Geezums crow.
LOVE That Laurie’s vest. It’s gorgeous!
HONK, HONK, HONK! I am not fond of gauge. It rhymes with cage where I usually need to go after attempting to “get gauge”. That Laurie’s vest is stunning! Did it involve gauge?
row gauge sucks, so count that as a big, fat honk.
I heart that vest… big time. the fact that it’s handspun wool adds to pricelessness.
HONK! I’m working on Tulips and having the same problem, but I think I have to finish it to see if it is a real problem (not matching the schematic is OK if it looks good on). Darn that row gauge!
Who needs Noro when you’ve got That Laurie?
Also, row gauge? I never pay attention to it. Maybe that’s not a good thing.
Honk honk!
Man is That Laurie poking around in my head or something? I’m slowly spinning up a heap of fleece with the idea of making a Kauni style cardi only with the pattern from Folk Vests. Now at least I know what it will look like! LOL
Honk.
HONK! HONK! Screw row gauge. Knit and hold it agaist myself I does. I’m a shortie and a fatty, so playing fast and loose with patterns is the only way. You’re a thinking knitter, you can do it girlfriend. Did you get to be The Harlot by being a slave to patterns? Somehow I don’t think so.
HONK!! Knitting gauge drives me nuts.
Forget J. Lo! That Laurie is the real Triple Threat!
Oh, I’m honking up a blue streak here. I just ran into the same problem with a different pattern. How do you fix row gauge, btw? I know how to fix stitch gauge, but the row? Especially if it’s too BIG! ARG!
Honk. A rush hour’s worth of honks. A _Chicago_ rush hour’s worth of honks.
And I can never, ever make both row and stitch gauge at the same time. The knitting goddesses hate me.
Oh, double HONK! You should have seen my first attempt at Ariann with a substitute yarn in an entirely different row gauge. It wouldn’t have fit an orangutan.
Maybe because they were “proscribed” decreases, you shouldn’t have done them? (Proscribed = forbidden, I believe. Different from “prescribed”.)
I know, pedantic isn’t cute. Sorry.
Big HONK anyway.
I can get stitch gauge 90% of the time and I have chosen to live by your words of wisdom, that stitch gauge is more important than row gauge. I just measure. For the perpetual Manos, I measured a cardigan I have that fits well and compared those measurements to the schematic, and circled the appropriate numbers. Now I have to fix an arsed-up cable, which is right on the front … must find appropriate size dpns when I get home.
Gads I love it when you go all sweetness and light :^), glad you had the time with That Laurie before the ratbastard hit the fan. xox
Row gauge? Row gauge? We don’t need no stinkin’ row gauge!
Heh. Row gauge is the reason why I started swatching in the first place. Now (at least for sweaters) I try to knit a swatch and then pick a project based on my available yarn/needle/gauge combination. Kind of a pain, but it works OK.
Definitely not fair – first that good man gets himself in a pickle and then the knitting fairy puts a curse on your tank top. How does one get one’s row gauge into line without throwing the stitch gauge off anyway? I haven’t the foggiest idea!
Maybe liberal ingestion of coffee, chocolate and or beer would help.
Then again, maybe then you just wouldn’t notice.
I suppose convincing your body to change shape to fit your knitting is out of the question? Probably something only the X-People (I refuse to call them X-Men, since they aren’t all men) could do. Oh well.
Oh poo, that really sucks. I really don’t know what you should do but I have every confidence that, as the Yarn Harlot, you will figure something out. How did Norah do it?
Row gauge? We don’t need no stinkin’ row gauge! HONK!
Okay, That Laurie’s vest is an inspiration and a cause of some deep green envy here. I’m just learning to spin, so maybe some day, a long time from now…
And I wouldn’t snip the problem child into bit and eat it – as annoying as it is being, it would probably just cause indigestion.
Only one – eh? That’s why we only make one of a pair for samples in the store – if we have two they get stolen.
I’d honk, but I’m paralyzed from the stunningedness of that vest. Can I love That Laurie and hate her all at the same time, while also wanting to be her?
you could call webs
perhaps melissa could
tell you what to do
or did your under arms
lose wieght or something
hope all goes well friday
be careful webs only has 7 skiens left
She spins it, knits it and wears it.
beautiful!
That Laurie is truly amazing. I’m glad you gave her yarn therapy for such a sad time to be in your fair city. As for your row gauge issue, perhaps flylady is so organized she has something on that, too?
I’ll join this flock of geese and HONK! Found out from years of experience that I am a loose knitter (yeah, baby) and usually have to go down a needle size for stitch gauge. And on top of that, I am an even looser purler, so have to go down another needle size to purl back. Needless to say, I have double sets of every needle that’s been in the market for 25 years. Love me some Knitpicks sets, where you can put a different size on either end.
Gauge? I have a hard time even spelling it. Now I find out that there’s actually two types of gauge to watch out for? Back to washcloths for me!
honk honk honk
Dear God; in pictures, Romni always looks so much roomier and better lit than in person!
Might you have needed to work 3 inches about the decreases? That would have given you 7 inches.
Hmmm–I think I may need to get that as a bumper sticker.
>> Honk if you HATE ROW GAUGE > When I wake up tomorrow, I want to be That Laurie. <<
Me too! I envy her her skill and you the time you get to spend with her.
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNK. Row gauge is seriously the root of all evil.
Every single ‘honk’ on this page was just read aloud to me by the boychild sitting on my lap.
Ah. I agree. Row gauge is a total rat bastard. I just fell down that hole myself. I made Norah’s Tilted Duster (wonderful pattern). I used bulky wool (which the pattern calls for) and could not get gauge, so, I flubbed, and… the end product was not so bad (I can totally live with the wonky sleeve caps). Besides, it was for me and everyone thinks it is beautiful. It really does look beautiful. So beautiful, that a friend of mine bought me the yarn to make her one. Well, wanting to get gauge and make it right this time, I used a worsted weight and, low and behold, got gauge! I swear! It was wonderful! I could follow the pattern and not flub for once. Plus, this cardigan wasn’t for me. Well….. let’s just say when I got to picking up the stitches for the skirt part, I only picked up what I thought I needed. That’s okay Dani, that’s what you always do and it works out fine. You don’t need all those stitches! I got all the way through and was so happy to be at the end. Hmmmmm. It was kind of weird that I had two skeins of wool left. Maybe I should put it on and see how it fits before I bind off. Aha! The dreaded row gauge got me. Unless my friend had decided to get a massive breast reduction, this thing was not going to fit around her and close in the front. Yep, ripped it out and put all those stitches on that Norah calls for. Almost done, again….. Beautiful cardigan though! 🙂
Honk! I had to make massive readjustments on the top of some shaped sleeves and it was my own design. I still don’t understand it. My best guess was that the yarn itself determines the smallest stitch gauge (unless you really yank it), but the needles determine row gauge (unless you are a very loose or very tight knitter), but that doesn’t explain those sleeve tops. HONK!
Oh… snip it up and eat it. We all need more fiber in our diets.
(Couldn’t resist.)
I went to all of the links for Laurie’s dye process. I got duplicate #3 and no #4! The end! The grand finale! Please put it in tomorrow – I have 4 trash bags of carded alpaca waiting for this kind of inspiration.
Thanks.
Oh, yeah – HONK!
Double Honk. What is gauge for anyways! It’s just meant to overwork and frustrate you.
Row gauge is the curse of my life. I’m still too frightened to figure out how to do the math to re-do armhole shaping to fit my gauge.
So what am I doing? Am I sucking it up and learning the math? No.
I’m teaching my mathmetician husband how to knit.
🙂
Honk. It’s the worst when you have to worry about row gauge and you have a knitting black hole. Then I’m just afraid and frustrated when it spits back out all the knitting I did.
Honk. Honk. HOOOOOONK.
Honk. Times two. Who came up with row gauge anyway?!
The vest is incredible.
Good vibes to you and Joe and Joe’s leg.
Honk! (I would hate it more if I ever actually bothered with it. Pfft.)
Steph, you’re a vegetarian. You get plenty of fiber, for heaven’s sakes. There’s no point eating it. Give it to the squirrel.
Honk.
In my life, I’ve only ever gotten gauge in one direction (and always have to drop two needle sizes to do it–go on, knit worsted weight with size 3s!). In the other direction, I’m only ever somewhere in the neighborhood. And, often, it’s a big neighborhood. I just figure out which one matters most, decide whether I can compensate easily in the other direction…and often toss the pattern and find something less gauge-exacting. (And I have the same problem with crocheting, except in the opposite direction: I crochet too tightly.)
Of course, my body’s not to gauge either. My body’s stitch gauge would be perfect on someone with a looser row gauge…
Honking…Good luck with that, I too hate row gauge!
Hope you are enjoying the heart cards from Salt Lake…just made more for a friend and thought of you!
Sending happy thoughts your way that Joe will heal quickly and you can quit all the running and fetching and get on with the knitting!
That vest is beyond comment. The extent of my jealousy absolutely has no bounds. Weeping as I endeavor to finish my very simple garter stitch piece…weeping as I realize I will never live long enough( likely 100 years) to be able to make that beauteous item. (sigh)
HONK! That happens to me a lot… good to know I’m not the only *@#^*#, eh I’m not saying that you are a *@#^*# ofcourse! It’s hard for me to enjoy projects like Laurie’s vest because -although I’m not nearly as accomplished or even close- I can get an understanding of the ammount of work and the difficulty of getting the pattern and the dying and the whole thing to work. That mostly just makes me mentally exhausted. But if you look quickly, just glance and think of something else, it’s extremely fabulous! 😉
Row gauge SUCKS! Honk, honk, honk! I want to thank you for so graciously admitting in public that it kicks even your accomplished knitting arse sometimes. It tends to kick mine on a regular basis. While it’s sad that anyones butt gets kicked, it definitely makes the rest of us lowly knitters feel just a teeny bit better to know that you sometimes suffer the same fate, especially since you are a much higher evolved knitting life form than I LOL! Sorry you have to visit the Frog Pond though.
That Laurie is just amazing and inspiring! Thanks so much for sharing her accomplishments with us. That vest is absolutely stunning! I have a friend (Who is not only blogless but computerless! I keep trying to tell her what she’s missing but she says that maybe that’s why she gets so much done LOL!) who does a lot of knitting with her handspun and I’m always amazed at how much she accomplishes and how gorgeous it is. If she and That Laurie ever got together, the rest of us wouldn’t stand a chance! Hope Joe is feeling a bit better.
OMG honk!!! I have attributed my, um, disconnect with row gauge to: 1) substituting yarn and 2) being one of the loosest knitters on the planet. Thank the gods I have tape measures and a calculator and can do the math. Or I’d never knit anything but scarves, hats and freestyle fingerless mitts. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but I’m known as the baby-sweater knitter at my workplace, so I’ve gotta be able to fit a pattern to a body… even if it’s a small body.)
Best of luck to you with the recalculating. And my best to Joe and the girls, too.
Honk!
Wow…do you think That Laurie would consider adopting? I would joyously take any and all hand-me-downs she sent my way! I ordered the Folk Vests book just because of that shot of her vest, even though I know that hell will surely freeze over before I knit anything even remotely close to that level of gorgeousness. Sigh.
I vote for eating.
Ooh, always good to see what That Laurie’s been working on. Such beautiful things she makes.
Row gauge is a big stupid bastard. I do not like it.
I’ve had an epic run-in with that rat bastard “row gauge” myself. It’s called the Alexis Cardigan. May it rot in hell. I knit those @#$% sleeves over and over again and they always came out way too long. You can’t just stop anywhere on an aran cabled sleeve. (sigh) I tried to shrink it and felted it instead. Now it hangs on the back of my computer chair as a reminder, a lesson, and a shoulder warmer, unseen by any human eyes other than mine. honk
We hates it, precious…we hates it…wants to bites it with pointed nasty teethses, yes we does… scarvveeesssss precious… scarvvvvesssses has no nasty row gauge… we hates it….would rather eats us some acryllic than some row gauge, wouldn’t we? sccccarrrrvesesssss…. mmmm… scarvvvseesssssss…..
Of course. Doesn’t everyone?
I notice that you don’t refer to Laurie’s vest as “faux Fair Isle,” and I appreciate that. If you use two yarns at once, carrying the unworked one in back, it’s still Fair Isle, even if one of the yarns (or both) keeps changing color. (Sorry, it’s been getting to me.)
HONK! Gauge? Pshaw. (Having said that, may I point out that I knit idiotsimple shawls, dishcloths, scarves, toques, long-skinny-thingies and oddments which I wind up throwing away (gulp), so I’ve managed, so far, to avoid gauge of any kind. Oh – I make socks, but I’m slavishly attached to directions, and so far so good. But That Laurie (and you) are like Divine Inspirations, and I treasure just *looking at* things you make. I think I’m pretty cheeky, looking at her vest for example, to say “Oh yeah, I’m a knitter, she’s a knitter, Yarn Harlot’s a knitter.” Does me ego good, but that’s like saying a two-year-old singing “Twinkle Twinkle” is a singer….and so is (was) Pavarotti. It’s all context, I guess.
Hey, I just finished the Flow and I think I had the same problems. I had a helluva time getting gauge at all, much less row gauge. I used a different yarn (Hempathy) and it came out great in the end. Good luck – you are a much more experienced knitter than I, you can make it work.
“All that is gold does not glitter,
not all those who wander are lost.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
VERY LOUD HONKING HERE
i almost never get row gauge and have to go down a size or three to get stitch gauge.
is there a home for those of us?
HONK
But what a gorgeous vest! And ooooh, quviut! (yummm)
“I returned home to keep working on the Flow tank” made me think you were having toilet problems again. 🙂
How unfrackingbelievable! I have the Folk Vests book and pulled the same pattern as That Laurie to use in a pullover for my DH. I used Kauni original rainbow and black wool and it looks JUST LIKE hers, but with sleeves! My husband is sulking that his one-of-a-kind sweater isn’t anymore! How bizarre! And beautiful! Oh, and HONK.